The Open Emergency Medicine Journal
2010, 3 : 3-6Published online 2010 April 22. DOI: 10.2174/1876542401003010003
Publisher ID: TOEMJ-3-3
Prosthetic Mitral Valve Thrombosis Presented as a Pulmonary Embolism with Obstructive Shock in Emergency Department
Sant’Andrea Hospital, Via di Grottarossa 1035-1039, 00189 Roma, Italy
ABSTRACT
We are describing a case of acute prosthetic valve thrombosis, presented in emergency department with clinical findings of pulmonary embolism. This case, underlines the best diagnostic accuracy of the chest CT scan, comparison to the trans thoracic echocardiogram for the differential diagnosis.